little Tid-i-wats, to whom we have already been introduced, was a feline of very uncertain temper and most impulsive and nerve-racking little habits, yet to Ruth she could always go and be sure of a loving reception no matter to what lengths she had gone, for Tid-i-wats was far from being a perfect little cat; she very often reverted to her original type and did things that no cat with a civilized ancestry would have even thought could be done; but she knew that Ruth would only say: "She is not feeling very well, today; she is beginning to show her years a little; I noticed a white hair only today, on her little neck; she is my own old baby-cat, anyway, and I will always take as good care of her as I possibly can."
— from An American by Belle Willey Gue

"Have you always lived in New York?" asked Midget.
— from Marjorie's New Friend by Carolyn Wells

“Have you always lived in New York?”
— from Adrift in New York: Tom and Florence Braving the World by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

I hope you are less ignorant now."
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

Have you always lived in New York?”
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

“He’s never hame yet; at least, I never heard him skliffin’ on the stair, but his dochter cam’ back hersel’ frae the assembly.”
— from Jaunty Jock, and Other Stories by Neil Munro